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| Thread ID: 87021 | 2008-02-05 01:29:00 | VOIP and Broadband connection | notechyet (4479) | Press F1 |
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| 637571 | 2008-02-06 03:35:00 | I have read the posts you suggested stu161204, interesting to get different opinions I know. I hope my experience will be a good one with Fusion and am optimistic in that respect. I certainly have had nothing but excellent service and a professional manner from WxC in the past. As for them having a call centre in "Asia somewhere" I am sure they haven't. |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 637572 | 2008-02-06 03:52:00 | Sherman Thanks! So far my connection has been very reliable except that they(T..om) put breaks in my GoLarge plan. I have installed a second(Linux) OS and for the first days I had amazing download speeds(like 450-520Kb's). T..com has pulled the breaks on that! So from that I think my line is ok. Would you be able to elaborate on the costs a bit more? Thanks NT Of course.. At the moment, I am being charged by a certain well known telco approx $49/month for my line rental etc. I am being charged $49.95/month + 0.1c/MB for data up to about $65 for approx 15GB. That internet is fullspeed both up and down. I have VFX, with no monthly charge, as I am an Xnet HSI customer. Local calls are free, national calls and calls to many intl countries is 5c/MB All this costs approx $99 before I have made any calls or downloaded anything from the net. With Fusion, one would be charged $69.95/month + 0.1c/MB. This is a package of both VFX and Fullspeed in both directions internet. No line rental is needed. Call prices are the same as with standalone VFX. If you wish to have your current phone number ported to Fusion, there will be a one off fee of $19.95. it seems that changing to Fusion from any other company other than Telecom is not yet possible. Other than that, you will need VFX approved hardware. If you already have a decent ADSL mode/router setup, a Linksys PAP2T will be fine. Otherwise look on the Xnet site to see what best would suit your needs. I myself have the WAG54GP2v2 all-in-one solution. i hope any of the above ramblings help any.. |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 637573 | 2008-02-06 04:38:00 | Sherman Thanks, that is a perfect explanation. Does fax work through it? is there anything like an answer service that connected be connected to (like call minding)? lakewoodlady Are you connected for some time? All working well? pctek Also thanks for your explanations. Price wise it does look quite attractive as we pay now 140.- for the very basic phone lines(2) and for Go Large, call minder and Talk it Up plus approx. 20.-/mth for calling card. So an $80.- incl. 10GB sounds better if the rest of the service is ok. NT |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 637574 | 2008-02-06 04:54:00 | I don't have a fax myself, but I've read of others who do use it with VFX/Fusion. Apparently national faxing works quite well but international is hit and miss. Also, if you do decide on fusion, you may like to look at setting it up/wiring it up so that all phone jacks bar the one used for internet plug directly into your ATA device. there is plenty of info around for doing that if you look. |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 637575 | 2008-02-06 04:57:00 | Also, if you do decide on fusion, you may like to look at setting it up/wiring it up so that all phone jacks bar the one used for internet plug directly into your ATA device. there is plenty of info around for doing that if you look. Thanks Sherman That explanation is stretching my brain cells! NT |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 637576 | 2008-02-06 06:01:00 | Ah, sorry... The ATA (Analog Telephony Adapter) is whatever device you end up plugging your phones into, whether it be a PAP2T, SPAxxxx, WAG54GP2v2 etc. I was just saying that it may be possible for you to make good use of all the phone jacks in your house by connecting them to this device. Think of it as large scale multi-plug adaptor for the ATA, so you can plug more than one phone/fax/sky into it. |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 637577 | 2008-02-06 07:17:00 | As I said in a previous posting, I am signed up and have all the right equipment. I have signed up to Fusion just last week and hope to be connected to the service on Friday, all going well! notechyet, I will post my comments on this service on this forum when I have assessed the service. I had to buy a PAP2T ATA to hook up to my wireless router because I needed the extra phone port on it. At $69.95 and approx $1 per GB with a data cap of around 10 GBs, it is a saving for me of $22 per month, and I get to dump Telecom totally! |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 637578 | 2008-02-06 07:50:00 | Thanks for all the replies! I will wait for your comments before signing up! Cost wise it looks very attractive for me. NT |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 637579 | 2008-02-06 19:33:00 | As I said in a previous posting, I am signed up and have all the right equipment. I have signed up to Fusion just last week and hope to be connected to the service on Friday, all going well! notechyet, I will post my comments on this service on this forum when I have assessed the service. I had to buy a PAP2T ATA to hook up to my wireless router because I needed the extra phone port on it. At $69.95 and approx $1 per GB with a data cap of around 10 GBs, it is a saving for me of $22 per month, and I get to dump Telecom totally! Fingers crossed then! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 637580 | 2008-02-06 20:12:00 | Xnet couldn't work it out either why it didn't. It did sort of, but I could not get an incoming ring tone no matter what phone I had connected to the VOIP adapter, the SPA2100. Nor could I get the eftpos terminal to connect at all. I spoke to half of Xnet about it for some considerable time until I gave up on it as I couldn't afford to spend anymore time on it. The only thing I can think of is the line is slightly noisy. Affects nothing else not even dial up, but hey, due to a lack of any better explanation............ Incoming ring tone (returned to the caller) or actual ringing to your phone? Did you try more than 1 adapter? It would seem that any idea that the analogue port on these adapters is equivalent to a traditional exchange line circuit is wishful thinking. Even using the same G.711 encoding as the PSTN the ATAs don't seem to cope with the modem signals from eftpos or fax. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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